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Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[c1989]
Language
English
Description
Drama about life in the Army in the days prior to World War II. Shows the effect of Army discipline on an individualistic former boxing champion who defies the attempts of officers and men to break him when he refuses to fight on the company's boxing team. Includes actual scenes of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
With exacting detail, the film re-creates the American siege of the Somalian city of Mogadishu in October 1993, when a 45-minute mission turned into a 16-hour ordeal of bloody urban warfare. Helicopter-borne U.S. Rangers were assigned to capture key lieutenants of Somali warlord Muhammad Farrah Aidid, but when two Black Hawk choppers were felled by rocket-propelled grenades, the U.S. soldiers were forced to fend for themselves in the battle-torn streets...
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2002], c2001
Language
English
Description
In 1941, on a remote Greek island, an Italian artillery garrison is established to maintain order. One Italian officer, Captain Corelli, adopts an attitude of mutual co-existence with the Greeks and engages in such activities as music festivals and courting the daughter of a local doctor.
8) Hart's war
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
Description
Honor, courage, and sacrifice are revealed in unexpected ways as a ranking U.S. prisoner in a Nazi POW camp is joined in December 1944 by a law-student lieutenant who'd been captured despite his father's powerful military connections.
9) Patton
Publisher
Twentieth Century Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c1999
Language
English
Description
World War II adventures of General George S. Patton, United States Army.
Series
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
The Bismarck was the fabled German battleship of World War II. Traces the "life" of the Bismarck from its launching (courtesy of newsreel footage) through its many battles and narrow escapes, concluding with its far-from-inevitable sinking in the Spring of 1941. The story concentrates on the human element, specifically a British intelligence captain, who has lost his family in the London blitz and thus has a personal reason for seeing the Bismarck...
11) We were soldiers
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
Description
Lt. Col. Hal Moore is the commander of the First Battalion, Seventh Cavalry. As part of the Pleiku Campaign of late 1965, Moore is assigned to action at Landing Zone X-Ray in the Ia Drang Valley, an area known to be overrun by North Vietnamese troops and nicknamed "The Valley of Death." Moore soon finds himself and his men contained to an area about the size of a football field, surrounded by more than 2,000 enemy troops and engaged in the first major...
12) In enemy hands
Publisher
Lions Gate Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
American P.O.W.'s on a German U-boat fight for their lives against an outbreak of meningitis.
13) Jarhead
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006], c2005
Language
English
Description
Follows Marine enlistee Swoff through basic training and active duty in the Middle East during the Gulf War.
14) A bridge too far
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c1998
Language
English
Description
At Arnheim in 1944, the Allies suffered a disasterous defeat attempting to airdrop in Holland behind German lines. Based on a true story.
15) The big red one
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c1998
Language
English
Description
A dramatic war story of five fighting men who composed a rifle unit in the desert of North Africa.
18) Apocalypse now
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
c1999
Language
English
Description
A United States Army officer/trained assassin is sent into the depths of a southeast Asian jungle to seek out a renegade colonel and terminate his command during the Vietnam War.
19) Pork Chop Hill
Publisher
MGM/UA Home Video
Pub. Date
1999
Language
English
Description
Based on Gen. Marshall's documentation of the U.S. Army King Company's high-casualty offensive to capture the crucial hilltop in the Korean War.
20) Das boot
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
c1997
Language
Deutsch
Description
Follows the daring patrol of U-96, one of the famed German U-boats known as the "gray wolves."
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